Monday, May 17, 2010

It was a perfect weekend. Just the right amount of adventuring, reading, hooking, visiting, sleeping in, sunshine and laundry. Well, the perfect amount of laundry would be none, really -- but I do like clean clothes ;-)

My surprise acquisition at R.U.G. this weekend happened during the live auction, where I successfully bid on these three old rug hooks. The longest one has an antler handle....and the two coloured ones are very similar. I had originally though they were two different sizes (which is why I purchased both of them), but now that I have them at home I can see the hooks are virtually identical. Does anyone know anything about these two hooks? Something about them suggests commercial manufacturing....

I'm happy to add some antique rug hooks to my collection -- which until this weekend consisted of only one old hook. It helps to link our craft to the past.

Purse Patterns...

My Bala Bag patterns are now available in our Fish Eye Sisters Store.....just click on the image above to go and check them out...

Retired Purse Patterns

I am retiring my original purse patterns (pictured above). There is just one Original size pattern left - designed and details as listed below. Once it's gone, it's gone. Please email me if you are interested: jen AT fisheyesisters DOT ca

About the following list of Rug Hooking Blogs....

This is by no means a complete list. For starters, it contains only the 25 most recently updated blogs on my much larger list. Plus, there are lots of new rug hooking blogs out there....so I know there are some missing. If you'd like me to include your blog in the list - or if you know of other great rug hooking blogs - please let me know. Send me a quick e-mail at fisheyerugs AT hotmail DOT com. Thanks!